Palliative Medicine - Open Rank/Open Track Faculty
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
The Department of Medicine, Division of General, Geriatric, and Palliative Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine seeks a board-certified or board-eligible palliative medicine physician to join its Section of Palliative Medicine.
This is a full-time faculty position available at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor on a tenure-eligible or tenure-ineligible track. Rank, track, and compensation will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s qualifications, experience, scholarly accomplishments, and academic interests. For an exceptionally qualified senior candidate with a distinguished record of clinical excellence, scholarship, leadership, and national or international recognition, appointment to an endowed chair may be considered, subject to University review and approval. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary palliative care program dedicated to improving quality of life for adults living with serious illness. The faculty member will provide compassionate, evidence-based care emphasizing complex symptom management, communication, advance care planning, and support for patients and families. Clinical responsibilities will include both outpatient palliative medicine practice and inpatient consultation across UVA Health. The distribution of inpatient and outpatient clinical effort will be determined based on the successful candidate's expertise, programmatic needs, and the evolving needs of the patients and communities served by UVA Health. This is a primarily clinical position. Protected effort may be considered for candidates with active externally funded research programs or demonstrated accomplishments and substantive leadership responsibilities in medical education. The final allocation of clinical, research, educational, and administrative effort will be based on the candidate's qualifications, documented productivity, active funding, programmatic priorities, and available resources. The successful candidate will also have opportunities to:- Teach and mentor medical students, residents, fellows, and other health professions learners.
- Participate in interdisciplinary education and faculty development.
- Contribute to clinical program development, quality improvement, and patient safety initiatives.
- Develop collaborative clinical, educational, or research initiatives across the Department of Medicine, UVA School of Medicine, and UVA Health.
- Participate in scholarly work as appropriate to the candidate’s faculty track, rank, and professional interests.
- Help shape the continued clinical and academic growth of palliative care services across UVA Health.
- A longstanding outpatient palliative care clinic, embedded in the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center and operating five days per week.
- A robust inpatient consult service supporting patients across UVA Health.
- An ACGME-accredited palliative medicine fellowship, offering opportunities for teaching, mentorship, and curriculum development.
- Close collaboration with UVA’s NCI-designated Cancer Center, enabling integrated oncology–palliative care models, shared care pathways, and joint program development.
Required qualifications include:
- Hold an MD, DO, or equivalent medical degree.
- Have completed an ACGME-accredited fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
- Be board-certified or board-eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
- Be eligible for unrestricted medical licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Experience providing palliative medicine care in inpatient and/or outpatient settings, with interest in practicing across both environments.
- Demonstrated excellence in communication, complex symptom management, and serious-illness care.
- Experience teaching and mentoring medical students, residents, fellows, or interprofessional learners.
- A record of educational scholarship, curriculum development, or educational leadership.
- A record of scholarly productivity and, as applicable, active or recent extramural research funding.
- Experience in clinical research, health services research, quality improvement, or implementation science.
- Experience developing or expanding clinical programs and interdisciplinary services.
- Evidence of leadership within an academic medical center, professional organization, or palliative care program.
To apply, please submit an application through the University of Virginia’s Interfolio system at https://apply.interfolio.com/189504.
Applicants should submit the following materials:- Cover letter describing the applicant's clinical experience, academic interests, and interest in the position. Applicants seeking protected research or educational effort should also describe their relevant accomplishments, current funding, and proposed contributions.
- Curriculum vitae.
- Statement describing contributions or potential contributions to the UVA Health ASPIRE values.
- Contact information for three professional references, including name, title, institutional affiliation, email address, and telephone number.
Organization
In 1819, the University of Virginia established a new model for intellectual exchange and cross-disciplinary collaboration in higher education. Two hundred years later, as a major research institution, we continue to challenge conventions, lead with ingenuity and advance knowledge for the common good.
What began as an innovative idea has become one of the nation’s leading public research universities, with over 21,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UVA also has over 3,000 full-time faculty offering more than 400 degrees.
Each of the University’s eleven schools has its own distinctive mission, working together to garner consistently high rankings—including #2 Best Value Public College (Princeton Review, 2016), #3 Public University in the Nation (U.S. News & World Report, 2016), and #3 Best Value Among Public Colleges (Kiplinger’s, 2016).
As we invest in and strengthen our research capabilities, UVA seeks new faculty ready to uncover new insights, rewrite old rules and collaborate on intellectual discoveries.
RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS THAT CROSS DISCIPLINES
As an R1 institution, the University’s research centers, consortia and laboratories are on the leading edge of discovery and technology, offering collaborative spaces for students and faculty to solve global problems.
Our professors are recognized members of major national scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our faculty’s engagement in interdisciplinary research is being facilitated by new research institutes specializing in everything from big data to brain functioning, and by cluster hires across schools.
NATIONALLY RANKED HEALTH SYSTEM
UVA is also home to a nationally renowned academic medical center and the UVA Health System, which serves a three-part mission to treat patients, conduct translational research and train medical practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines.
Established as the nation’s 10th medical school in 1825, the institution has since grown to include a 612-bed hospital and a Level I trauma center, nationally recognized cancer and heart centers, a Children’s Hospital, and primary and specialty clinics throughout Central Virginia.
The UVA Medical Center is consistently ranked among the nation’s best hospitals by the U.S. News & World Report magazine and has been named among the top 25 percent in seven specialties.
INSPIRING STUDENTS, INSPIRED TEACHING
The vast majority of UVA students come from the top 10% of their high school class, as well as from all 50 states, over 142 countries and a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite their diversity, all UVA students share a love of learning and a drive to achieve.
One of the reasons students choose Virginia is our unique residential culture. At UVA, the community of students, faculty and staff personifies the Jeffersonian idea that living and learning are connected. The Academical Village was constructed to support a unique residential experience, with faculty living in the Pavilions, students occupying Lawn rooms and the world-famous Rotunda at its heart. The University’s residential culture continues to support this experience today—strengthened by students, faculty and staff rich in backgrounds, ideas and perspectives. Our unique culture is also paying dividends in innovation: UVA’s faculty have generated more than 130 patents since 2010.
Perhaps most importantly, faculty come to UVA knowing that instruction is as important as research, and they pride themselves on their many teaching awards. Our best professors look for ways to encourage, mentor and develop tomorrow’s leaders inside and outside the classroom.
LIFE IN CHARLOTTESVILLE
Living in Charlottesville you’ll find sophisticated restaurants, world-renowned wineries and breweries, cosmopolitan arts and music, friendly urban and suburban neighborhoods and a Piedmont landscape that has lured adventurous souls for centuries. No wonder the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research named Charlottesville the “happiest city in America” in 2014.
In addition to UVA and its health system, several major employers have facilities in Charlottesville, including State Farm, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Department of Defense, GE and others. Charlottesville is also becoming a center for innovative start-up businesses. The University also actively helps spouses and partners of faculty members build their networks and pursue employment opportunities with a wide variety of area employers.
The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All interested persons are encouraged to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
- Telephone
- 434-985-4532
- Location
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2420 Old Ivy
Charlottesvle
Virginia
22911-7433
United States
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